The Ad Graveyard offers ad campaigns that never quite made it out the door, killed either by frightened clients, focus groups or ad agencies themselves. This site includes photos, which is half the fun.

Greatest Films doesn't stop with the top 100. True film lovers can drill much deeper. Includes plot summaries and commentary for many American classics.

Got a favorite digital photo? Kodak invites you to submit it to the Photo-Quilt 2000 Project, a collection of on-line images that aims to capture a vision of "our hopes, our dreams, and our memories" as we enter the new millennium.

When cancer strikes you or someone you love, you may not know where to turn. The folks at Cancer Care invite you to turn to them. A Counseling Line offers immediate help, and services are free.

HealthScout bills itself as a free service providing original news, features and syndicated material tailored to personal health concerns.

The March hopes to mobilize a mass demonstration in Washington next month to focus public attention on the need for a cancer cure. The Web site also offers information about activities in your community.

KnowX describes itself as the most comprehensive source of public records on the Net. Most searches are 50 cents during peak hours but free the rest of the day.

The International Lyrics Server offers a user-friendly search engine to the lyrics to 96,227 songs.

Type in your date of birth at this Time Capsule site and you'll get a digest of news headlines, top song titles and other factoids.

Children with learning disabilities have found a powerful friend on the Web with LDOline. Its resources include an "Artist of the Week," an "Ask the Expert" section and a "What's New" area of research findings and political news.

Witness how the Web opens literary doors with a visit to The Hydra, a journel produced by the patients at Craig Lockhart Military Hospital during World War I. Among contributors: soldier-poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon.

The National Student Research Center at Mandeville Middle School in Mandeville, LA., has a lofty goal: to educate children around the world to become humanitarian and ecological citizens.

There was a time when you had to trudge to a clerk's office in Washington to view your elected representatives' financial disclosure forms. Thanks to the Web, that time is long past. A quick and easy resource. Visit here.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency lets us keep tabs on the hurricane scene with a new Storm Watch site with backgrounds on preparedness, satellite images and outlooks.

Are you addicted to the internet? Young's Internet Addiction Test ask users to assess their "level of addiction" by answering 20 questions. Does it judge to harshly? Find out.

Vignette describes itself as an "almost daily" look at architecture, design and art. On a given day, you could find a tribute to pioneering works of the architect Pietro Belluschi, gain a glimpse of a kinetic sculpture or learn the definition of "caryatid," An archive is included.

Space science can be more fun than our children may ever have imagined. At The Space Place, from the folks at NASA, kids can learn how to make and do "spacey things."

Know a couple of people who ought to be a "couple" but have never gone out together? Here's your chance to arrange a blind date, virtually. You supply the e-mail addresses, and the site does the rest.

Here's a source for "strange, twisted, interesting facts" that tend to follow questions beginning with the words "Didja Know." You guess which are true. Includes an archive.

The National Whistleblower Center is not only a place where government employees can turn when they witness misconduct. It's also involved in environmental protection, nuclear safety and civil rights. This site nicely describes the nonprofit organization's wide range of activities.

Looking for a statistical profile of a city, county or metropolitan area? Turn to the American Community Network, an ambitious project to link the nation's communities to cyberspace. A clear, user-friendly layout.

If you think that children have a lot to gain from the Web, but you are not sure how to keep them safe on line, check out SafeKids. A long list of safety-related articles, along with kid-safe sites.

It's called Fun. Check out the Game Zone, Jukebox, and Virtual Theater, where you can take a QuickTime tour of the sets of favorite programs.

Rate the Music wants to give listeners a voice in rating music. Participants listen to short music segments.

Poof!! You're a magician at The Magic Show The site includes background instructions, new reports and an arcade of interactive tricks.

Here's a site that teaches us how to build sandcastles.Honest!!!

The U.S.News Online ranks more than 1400 graduate schools, list the best HMO's, hospitals, software for kids, and much more.

Consumer Reports provides advice and infor on back-to-school products and services, from desktop PCs to backpacks.

High school students can brush up for those college entrance examswith a handy SAT Question fothe Day, part of College Board Online. You'll also find free early-awarness software to get your seventh-, eighth-, and ninth-graders on the college-bound track.

Visit a place where high school stucents create cutting-edge Web design and multimedia, from University City High School in Philadelphia.

Judge whether a movie is worth watching. See how many Rotten Tomatoes it gets.

Quirked Defined: "a 3-D rendered Web comic focusing on peculiarities of action or behavior." This site distorts pictures of celebrities, politicitians etc.

Aquarius describes itself as an under-water Web site. It sits 60 feet below sea level and your're invited to drop in for a visit.

Web specialization takes another step ahead with a search engine for dictionaries. Just enter a word and click the "Look It Up" box.

Moneyopolis bills itself as the place for money-sharp kids. The site aimes to help youngsters learn to manage their money.

The Election Connection attempts to connect us to bonified campaign sites.

Easy Searcher is specifically designed for the new Internet user. It consists of what itcallsseven fast and reliable search engines.







Assistive Technology
For more information about Web accessibility, visit these sites:

National Federation of the Blind offers tips on making Web pages more accessible for the blind as well as links to companies that self screen readers and other helpers.

Microsoft Accessibility and Disabilities. Microsoft may not be perfect, but it has been an industry leader in making products more accessible.

Bobby 3.0. Wonder how accessible - or inaccessible - your site is? Bobby is a free service that analyzes it and suggests fixes.

Web Accessibility Initiative. This is the international effort to break down barriers for blind, deaf and other disabled people on the Web.

WebABLE. This site bills itself as the "authoritative directory" for disability-related Web resources.

From Modern Maturity Magazine
by Mark Wexler
Gardening Search for more than 1,500 varieties of plants in a fully illustrated plant encyclopedia that provides information on subjects such as growth habits, care, pest suscepitibility, and more. Also included is a directory of gardening sites, searchable by region, key word, or subject.

Yahoo! Classifieds: Gardening Services. Gardening classified ads are posted here and are categorized by region.

The Gardening Launch Pad. More than 2,000 links to home-gardening Web sites, separated into some 60 categories, from African violets to weeds.

American Community Gardening Association. A nonprofit membership organization supporting the idea of community gardening for urban and rural dwellers who don't have their own land.

Garden Guides. This is a beautifully illustrated site that has dozens of categories to investigate, including composting; designing rock gardens; growing and using herbs, vegetables, and flowers; cultivating, harvesting, freezing and storing vegetables.

SeniorsSearch. Gardening topics for the over-50 crowd.

National Gardening Association. Search the NGA's huge gardening library, read articles from "National Gardening Magazine", find answers to specific questions, and learn about seed swaps and other programs sponsored by the nonprofit organization.





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